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The Council on Foreign Relations says you shouldn't worry about the United Nations Small Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which is currently being hammered out at the United Nations in New York.
Opposition to the treaty and defense of the Second Amendment "are not only inflammatory, they are completely unfounded," the premier globalist organization asserts. Stewart M. Patrick, writing for "The Internationalist," a blog on the CFR website, argues that the treaty does not endanger the Second Amendment and the sovereignty of the United States.
"The treaty is limited to the international trade of conventional arms, which pertains to the buying, selling, transshipping, transferring, or loaning across borders," Patrick writes. Instead of endangering the Second Amendment and the right to own firearms, "the treaty is primarily aimed at countries in which rigorous controls and oversight are absent, in an attempt to harmonize and coordinate standards worldwide."
The CFR steers our attention to a March, 2012, document produced by the United Nations General Assembly stating that the treaty will "Prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit transfer, illicit production and illicit brokering of conventional arms and their diversion into the illicit market, including for use in transnational organized crime and terrorism" and does not impose restrictions on firearm ownership in the United States.
In fact, the treaty would have a significant impact not only on the ownership of firearms, but also national sovereignty.
Earlier this month, Larry Bell of Forbes spelled out the dangers of the ATT, specifically: the globalist treaty will force strict licensing requirements for firearms ownership; create an international gun registry; and mandate that all "unauthorized" firearms (including semi-automatic "assault" rifles) be confiscated and destroyed.
"In short, overriding our national sovereignty, and in the process, providing license for the federal government to assert preemptive powers over state regulatory powers guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment in addition to our Second Amendment rights," Bell warns.
Since its inception, the United Nations has worked with gun control groups and NGOs. For instance, the UN teamed up with the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) in 1998. IANSA is as an umbrella network to which virtually all national and regional gun control groups belong. It is estimated to represent over 800 gun control organizations in 120 countries. IANSA opposes the use of firearms for self-defense and has worked to make the possession of handguns and semi-automatic weapons illegal. Not surprisingly, in addition to support from the United Nations, IANSA receives funding from the Ford Foundation (in other words, the CIA) and the Rockefeller Foundation.
In 2001, the UN held a conference on eliminating firearms in New York. "At an 11-day meeting beginning July 9 at U.N. headquarters in New York, every extremist anti-gun group in the world will show up at a summit on 'small arms,' where the delegates will attempt to create a global standard of gun control, banning civilian fire arms ownership worldwide," NewsMax reported.
"The bottom line is that international gun banners want every gun – every single gun worldwide – to be under U.N. and government control," warns LaPierre. "And that includes your rifle, your shotgun, your handgun, and even family heirlooms that have been handed down from generation to generation," said the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre.
"The ultimate aim of the CFR is to create a one-world socialist system, and to make the U.S. an official part of it," Dan Smoot, a former member of the FBI, explained shortly after the globalist organization was created in 1921. In order to do this and eliminate opposition, the CFR and the United Nations are working in tandem to establish a gun grabbing regime under the guise of stopping violence by terrorists and organized crime.
The CFR and others will naturally try to derail criticism of the ATT, but thanks to the alternative media the effort is meeting stiff resistance. Even factions of the corporate media are resisting the effort, as Fox News demonstrated on July 18 when it wrote:
The most likely regulations to be pushed by the UN treaty are those that have been the favorites of American gun control advocates for years — registration and licensing, micro-stamping ammunition, and restrictions on the private transfers of guns. Unfortunately, these measures have a long history of failure and primarily just inconvenience and disarm law-abiding gun owners.
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The email I received at the office told me that there was now a fifth edition to "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motorcycles," which was coincidental.
Only recently, a friend had told me I had to be a complete idiot to want to buy a motorcycle at my age.
I was being taunted or encouraged. At my age, it's tough to know which.
It doesn't matter. The motorcycle of my daydreams is irrelevant to our topic. This particular Complete Idiot's Guide was the first on a rather lengthy list of new Complete Idiot's Guides that Alpha Books recently published. So, now we are able to continue our quest to understand life solely based on the subjects of self-help books that don't count on you being very bright.
Other than reading what insight people offer on their T-shirts, where else could some of us search?
"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Discovering Your Past Lives" is a convenient example. If we can't figure out our present lives before we're done here today, maybe we all can take a stab at understanding one of our former selves.
We can talk, as well, about "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Social Network." If you're not having success with relationships in your real life, maybe you can give a social life a shot online.
And, even if you can't figure out what's right and wrong for your personal life, you can read "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Positive Dog Training" and keep your best friend in line. I haven't read that one yet, but I'm guessing that somewhere in the first chapter it tells you to lay in a load of treats. Snacks work on most people, too, by the way.
Before you embark on your own investigation of The Idiot's Guide to the meaning of life — that could be a book under either the "Body, Mind, Spirit" or the "Trivia" categories — let me offer you a bit of advice.
If you're looking for an understanding of business, start with "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Economics" instead of jumping right into "The Complete Idiot's Guide to MBA Basics." Remember, we're idiots.
When you read "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Marathon Training," don't follow it up with "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Barefoot Running." You'll likely find that life is full of blisters.
And, don't pair up "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Urban Homesteading" with "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Raising Goats." Your neighbors — and they're closer in the city — may not share your curiosity with the life of a complete idiot.
One last thing. I'm pretty sure that the answers to all of life's questions can be found in "The Complete Idiot's Guide to HTML5 and CSS3." If not, check out "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Easy Freezer Meals." One or the other ought to help.
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As Jon Finkel and Benjamin Caumes waited for their match to begin, neither player said anything as the shuffled each other's cards. Jon cocked his head when the rest of the feature match area went equally quiet. "You okay, Ben?" he shouted across to Ben Seck—the reason for the sudden drop in chatter.
"Yeah, why?"
"You stopped talking."
"What should I talk about?"
"You always find something."
The subject everyone else was talking about were the decks of the two competitors. Jon and Benjamin were the only green drafters at the table and both have amazing G/R decks. Call it the showdown of broken commons. Jon is sporting two Sparksmiths and a Timberwatch Elf while Ben has three copies of the busted elf along with triple Elvish Warrior.
Game 1
Both players kept their opening hands and Jon kicked things off with a Stonewood Invoker. He got in for two before each player made a turn three morph. Jon got in for another four and made morph number two. Benjamin got in for two with his morph and played the Krosan Vorine that slipped through Jon's fingers during the draft.
Jon attacked with everyone and the Frenchman announced no blocks. Jon unmorphed a Branchsnap Lorian and a Skirk Commando, which killed the bystander Vorine. The score was Jon = 18 and Ben = 6 when a Spitting Gourna joined Ben's team.
Jon sent in the Lorian happy to trade with the Gourna. He was out of land but not plays and he cast a Timberwatch Elf, which was Pinpoint Avalanched during Ben's main phase.
Jon was undaunted and sent in the team and snuck two points of damage through while the Skirk traded with a facedown Gourna. Jon reinforced with an Elvish Warrior and another morph.
Ben was backpedaling and played a Taunting Elf and Krosan Vorine but they were only there to chump block. When nothing stepped up to do anything more than jump in the way Benjamin scooped.
Jon – 1 Benjamin – 0
Game 2
Caumes was clearly annoyed with his deck and sided in a Leery Fogbeast, taking out a Crown of Fury. Not to be outdone, Finkel sided in a Taunting Elf and took out the very same Taunting Elf.
Caumes kept his opener, which consisted of five lands, a Wirewood Herald and a Spitting Gourna and he played the Herald according to schedule. Jon was also keeping a schedule and his second turn appointment was with a Sparksmith. Caumes beat for a point and played a Taunting Elf. Jon cycled for a third land and played a Stonewood Invoker.
Caumes cast Explosive Vegetation and ramped up to six mana. At the end of the turn Finkel shot the Herald and Caumes searched out a Timberwatch Elf. Finkel untapped shot the Taunting Elf, swung for two and made a Thoughtbound Primoc. Caumes made use of all of his mana and played a Spitting Gourna face-up and an Elvish Warrior—Caumes was still holding back the Timberwatch he had fetched earlier. The Gourna elected not to block the Primoc and Finkel—who was stalled on four lands—played a Wirewood Elf.
Caumes played a snarling Undorak and swung in with his beastly Gourna and an Elvish Warrior. Finkel threw two of his elves in the way of the Warrior and lost an Invoker. The Primoc kept chipping away and Jon played a morph.
Caumes smashed into the red zone with his Undorak and the Gourna and Jon put his morph in the way of the snarling beast. Eagerly—hoping it was a chump block—Caumes asked, "Damage?" But Finkel had the Primal Boost. Frowning, Caumes pumped his Gourna twice to get in some extra damage and the Undorak died. Caumes finally played his Timberwatch Elf and a land leaving himself with an empty hand.
Finkel got in for four more damage and then killed the Gourna with a Solar Blast and the Sparksmith. Another Elvish Warrior joined Finkel's team. Caumes could only shake his head as he drew and played a morph. When Finkel attacked, Caumes put his Timberwatch in front of the morph and an unmorphed Gourna in front of the Primoc. Finkel revealed a Rockshard Elemental and first striked the 4/5 Timberwatch to death with the help of the Sparksmith.
Caumes played nothing on the next turn but Finkel wasn't taking any chances and he Waved the Gourna and swung in for lethal damage.
The game might have gone differently if Caumes hadn't thought Finkel was sitting on another goblin in hand but the lone American player in the Top 8 was only bluffing.
Finkel – 2 Caumes – 0
Game 3
Caumes could only seethe at his deck as he reconsidered his sideboard. He saved his meanest look for the Solar Blast that was sticking to the bottom of his deck. He decided to side out the Explosive Vegetation and bring the Crown of Fury back in.
A quick glance around the peanut gallery would reveal a host of the world's best players hanging on the rail. This included Bob Maher Jr. and Carlos Romao but before anyone else was the best there was Jon Finkel and the crowd was rippling with excitement. If he could get past this deck it seemed as if the tournament was his for the taking.
Both players kept their draws and Caumes played a Wellwisher, which Finkel reluctantly answered with a Stonewood Invoker. Caumes played a Timberwatch Elf and it started looking like time to put away the brooms—no sweeps here folks! Finkel appeared unconcerned and played out a morph after getting in for two with his Invoker—Caumes gained three.
The Frenchman followed up with a Snarling Undorak and Finkel made another morph with no possible attack—Caumes went up to 24. Caumes sent his beast into the red zone but he was out of land. Finkel sent two morphs and a Stonewood Invoker across the table but Caumes didn't feel like tapping his Timberwatch and took six. He would go back to 21 at the end of the turn but not before having to stare at Finkel's 7/7 Stag Beetle.
Still out of land Caumes played a Vorine and sent the turn back with no attackers. Finkel sent in the Stag Beetle which bust through unopposed and added a Needleshot Gourna to the team. Despite all of Jon's beats the score was tied 17-17 at the end of the turn.
Caumes was desperate for land and his deck offered none—he was still stuck on four. He ate the morph with his Vorine and saved it with his Undorak. Finkel kept the pressure on and sent everyone over the table. When Caumes tried to kill a Needleshot by pumping his Undorak with Timberwatch Elf, Jon killed the elf in response and the two beasts bounced. When the dust settled, Caumes was at 11 and Finkel played an Elvish Warrior.
Caumes found no land on his draw step and swung in with the Undorak and the Vorine but chose not to provoke. Jon blocked with the Elvish Warrior anyway and the mana-strapped Frenchman had to decide whether or not to save the Vorine. He chose not to and played out an Elvish Warrior and a Taunting Elf.
Finkel kept the beats coming and Caumes clung to life thanks to the Wellwisher. Finally Caumes was able to get to a point where he had eleven points of attackers and a Taunting Elf. It is unclear if he was toying with Jon or just did not see the kill at first. He was holding a Solar Blast but knocked on his deck and groaned at his draw. When he killed Jon, the American was PO'd. "I got slow rolled!"
Finkel- 2 Caumes – 1
Game 4
Still ticked from the last game Jon mimicked the Frenchman's deck knock and kept his opening hand. Caumes mulliganed.
Finkel opened with a Stonewood Invoker and Caumes played a Herald. Jon's third land came into play tapped—a Forgotten Cave. Leery Fogbeast came down on the French side of the battle. Jon did not have a fourth land but he did have Timberwatch Elf. Caumes reinforced with a 4/4 Skirk Outrider—courtesy of Leery Fogbeast.
Jon's fourth land enabled a Goblin Clearcutter, which allowed Finkel to explode into an Elvish Warrior and a 7/7 Stag Beetle on the next turn and a Brontotherium two turns later. Caumes was reeling under the assault and when they stopped the game to swing the camera over Caumes laughed nervously, "This doesn't seem good!"
It wasn't.
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Seyon Layne, 26, was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree assault after the attack at his mother's home, police said Friday.
Layne entered the Strum Street home Thursday night, and a verbal altercation began between Layne and his mother, police said.
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Layne allegedly forced his way into the room and stabbed both women multiple times before they fled. Police were called from a neighbor's house about 8:50 p.m., according to a news release.
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MORENCI VOLLEYBALL: Morenci volleyball coach Dennis Owens was happy with his squad's showing Saturday in the season opener at Addison, but there's still a lot of work to do to prepare for league play.
There's also some players to get into action.
Coach Owens went to Addison with only seven players dressed for a four-match day.
"With only seven players available on the conditions on the day, I am pleased with the total picture from Saturday," he said, "but we have a lot to work on for sure."
Owens is expecting Chelsea Phillips to play next week after her recovery from illness. Jessica Storrs is likely to miss at least two weeks yet and Breanna Gilson should join the squad by the end of September when she expects to get clearance for participation following a knee injury.
The Bulldogs started the day with a big winner over Litchfield, 25-4, 25-6. Brooke Bovee served 17 straight points to finish off the opener and Matea Garcia served 14 in a row to start game two.
Jonesville fell 25-22, 25-15, although Morenci never had the lead in the first game until 22-21 off a serve by Erin Vanderpool.
League foe Madison downed Morenci 25-18, 25-13, then went on to win the tournament by defeating Clinton in the finals. Morenci stayed close in the first game, trailing 16-19 and 17-21.
In bracket play, Morenci trailed Addison 17-18 before falling 17-25. In the second game—what Owens calls the Bulldogs' only bad game of the day—Addison took a 25-10 win to leave Morenci with a 2-2 record in its first outing of the season.
Serving—Bovee, 37/37, 9 aces, 26 points; Garcia, 38/41, 7 aces, 28 points; Vanderpool, 22/26, 4 aces, 14 points; Carolyn Blaker, 17/18, 2 aces, 8 points and Hannah Jeffers, 18/21, 3 aces and 8 points.
Attacks: Bovee, 24 kills and 4 blocks; Garcia, 17 kills and 2 blocks; Jeffers, 8 kills and 1 block; Taylor Schisler, 2 blocks
Passing: Vanderpool, 42 digs; Bovee, 23 digs; Blaker, 20 digs; Jeffers, 19 digs
Setting: Garcia, 23 assists; Bovee, 16 assists.
FAYETTE GOLF: Fayette's golfers earned a dual win and second-place in a quad match in early-season action.
Riley Martin and Jon Boesger tied for medalist honors in a dual match against Evergreen Aug. 16, with the Eagles taking a 176-190 victory.
Zayne Colegrove carded a 45 and Dusty Lantz followed with a 47.
Fayette also nipped the Vikings with the second team, 214-215, led by Matt Storrs with 47. Alec Hylander finished with a 52, followed by Tiffany Bates at 57 and Michael Brubaker at 58.
Friday at Ironwood, Archbold took a big win with 164 strokes, followed by Fayette with 184, Ayersville with 214 and Pettisville with 224.
An Archbold golfer was medalist with 39. For the Eagles, Boesger was tops at 43, followed by Lantz, 46; Martin, 47; Colegrove, 48; Storrs, 58; and Skylar Lantz, 64.


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Welcome to Sunday Matinee, where we highlight classic car reviews or other longer videos I find on YouTube. Kick back and enjoy this blast from the past.
It's not often that we here at Sunday Matinee Studios take a turn for the serious, but sometimes the heavier topics can also be the most fascinating. In 1991, as Saddam Hussein was high-tailing it out of Kuwait in an effort to save his own dictatorial behind (albeit temporarily), he decided that if he couldn't have Kuwait's oil, nobody could.
As the coalition military forces swept up into Iraq the first time, thousands of oil wells were set ablaze, their smoke darkening the sky. In the midst of all the chaos, civilian crews had to figure out a way to put out the fires, both quickly and safely. Put water on it? Blow it out? Just try and cap the wells somehow?
You'll have to watch to find out the ways in which they actually did it, but I thought that its pertinent to sometimes take a look at the way our oil consumption can have unforetold consequences, even if those consequences are the result of war.


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With wedding planning comes questions – and you are not alone if you have a long list to ask! Here are answers to some of the most commonly asked wedding catering questions.
- How much is a wedding for 200 people?
I am starting with this one because it seems like it would have an obvious answer, but it really doesn't. There is a common misconception when it comes to catering costs – in reality, there is not a flat rate per person for catering as a whole. Whenever I get this question, I can only answer with MORE questions because there are so many factors that go into a quote. Did you want a plated dinner, action stations or buffet? Any food for cocktail hour? Open bar, consumption bar, cash bar or bartender only? How many hours will your event be? Where is your event? The list goes on…
Every caterer has their own style, not only with their cooking but with their execution. When you are looking for quotes, start with your date (or tentative date). Ask the caterer if they are available that date, and ask them what they need from you to generate a quote. If you don't have answers to some of their questions, tell them what you think you would like, but that the detail is still flexible/TBD. Vendors need a starting point in order to give you an estimate. Telling them you are "unsure" to half of their questions will not get you the quote you want. If they have to fill in the gaps for you, you may end up with a quote that is totally opposite of what you had in mind, and it could scare you away from an awesome vendor.
- Do I need to include all guests in the head count?
YES, 1,000% yes. I can't emphasize this enough. If a guest is coming to your reception, they are assuming they are getting fed with everyone else and you should want to feed them! You are hosting an important event; everyone that made it onto your guest list is important to you, and therefore you want to treat them as such. There are two exceptions to this:
1. "Cocktail Reception to Follow" – These are the only four words that will help you reduce the amount of food provided without disappointing guests. When guests see this on their invite, it implies you will not be providing a full meal at the reception. In this scenario, you are ordering hors d'oeuvres by the dozen and/or a variety of displays that will each only feed around 75% of your guests. All guests will still enjoy some items, but not every guest will be able to enjoy every item. I get a lot of couples with the mindset of "when it runs out, it's out", and that's okay as long as you are okay with some guests not eating a little bit of everything. With this style, you want to make sure you are still covering at least 75% of your guest count.
2. Action Stations/Specialty Items – We often get couples that want to feature an item that is special to them but know not everyone will even want to try it. As long as your main meal has everyone included in your count, it is okay to have a partial count for the unique item. We want you to add your personal spin to things, after all, it is YOUR day! Don't be afraid to add in the cool Asian Taco Fusion Station – you just need to make sure everyone is fed outside of that. You should also consider including a few extra people in the unique item count – you never know who may branch out and love the cool new food you just introduced to them!
- Can I try the food before my wedding?
Absolutely! Every caterer has their own approach to tastings. Some provide a private tasting, where you try only the items you are considering for your day. Others host group tastings or open houses. With these types of tastings, you are trying a variety of items from their menu. Some of it may be what you are considering for your event, or it may not. There is less customization with group/open house tastings; however, there is a bigger variety to help you try a little bit of everything.
If you wish to try the food before signing with a caterer, ask them about their policy and potential pricing. Just like the booked event tastings, caterers all have different approaches to tastings prior to booking.
- What is included in the service charge?
The service charge is a percentage applied to overall event costs, which is why it can fluctuate as you tweak your menu and event details. On average, the service charge is 18 – 22% of your total cost. It covers all of the back-end costs that go into the event aside from the food itself. Most companies do not charge for the large cooking/serving ware, tastings (after booking), walk-throughs, meetings, food/rental transport and delivery, insurance certificates, etc. This fee offsets all of the costs to ensure your event runs perfectly! Many believe service charge is the staffing and/or gratuity, but that is not always the case. Labor typically is a separate charge and unless stated, gratuities are not included. In my opinion, gratuities are never expected but always greatly appreciated!
Sometimes it can be hard to stomach such a hefty charge – but consider all that is needed to feed your guests. Imagine trying to cook Thanksgiving dinner in a field for 15 – 25 people. What would you need to make it happen? Now multiply that 10 times. It adds up faster than you'd expect! Caterers are essentially restaurants on-the-go, and the service charge helps cover the "go".
- Do I really need the amount of staff you included in your quote?
If a professional caterer recommends it, trust them! They do this all the time and know what it takes to execute your event. If you have quotes from four different caterers, and one has double the staff that the others have for the exact same type of menu, it's okay to ask that caterer how they calculate their staffing. The same goes for a caterer who quoted far less staff than the others you are comparing it to – the last thing you want is an understaffed event. Caterers typically staff 1 server for every 25 – 30 guests with a buffet dinner, and 1 server for every 15 – 18 guests with a plated dinner. These ratios can vary depending on the timeline, venue layout, rentals provided and menu. It never hurts to ask, but know that most caterers staff only what is necessary to make your wedding run smoothly.
So there you have it, five of the most commonly asked wedding catering questions! I hope these answers and explanations help ease your mind and maybe even make your wedding planning a little less stressful. It is easy to get overwhelmed by a vendor's quote if you don't understand what all the charges mean or all the work that is going into the task at hand. It is important to not let these charges take away any of the joy or excitement of your special day. A great caterer will be able to work with you and your budget in order to compromise on getting you what you want at a price you can afford. Don't be afraid to shop around for a caterer you can trust and feel comfortable with, you want to be able to enjoy not only your wedding day but the whole planning process. Happy wedding planning!


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Testimony of Courtney Johnson
March 08, 2011
On behalf of the National Education Association
Hearing on State Fights in Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin
The American way has always been one that includes a great deal of free spirit, enterprise and independence. And it has also included an aspect of compassion that few nations in history can rival.
Out of this compassion arose a public education system that attempts to do what no other has done before: provide an equitable education to every single member of society, without regard to race, gender, wealth, social status, or perceived lack of intelligence or ability. A system that has proven to be a great equalizer for millions as they strive to gain a level playing field in the game of life and in the pursuit of the jobs of tomorrow.
Even as a little girl in Ironton, Ohio, I knew my mother had this compassion—she cared about making an impact, and contributing to, bettering our little town – first as a social worker, then a teacher's aide, and finally as a teacher. Years later, when I followed her example and became a teacher, I realized my mother served something much greater than our little town. My mother, my first teacher, was, and is, a teacher. I still say those words with pride: My mother is a teacher; I am teacher. To be a teacher was a position of honor. Unfortunately, this perception no longer seems to be the case.
My friend Justin said recently, "aside from family and friends there will be no one who cares more about your child's well being and future than a teacher...that I can promise you." Collective bargaining lets your child's teacher fight for them. We fight for smaller class sizes. We fight for professional development. We fight for art classes, physical education classes, and music classes. We fight for school nurses, and school social workers, and occupational therapists, and school libraries. We fight to be able to teach, not to teach to a test. We fight for technology that works. We fight to prepare your children for college and the world of work.
A new conversation is taking place all over the nation, and I fear for the New America we may soon become. Amid the growing battles we face to fund our schools the way they once were, I fear that we will be unable to preserve the equal opportunity, I fear that we will be unable to preserve the compassion that is America.
Well over a century ago, Mark Twain wrote some of the most astute and timeless observations of our society ever written. Amongst these he noted that he was living in what he referred to as a "Gilded Age" of America. One in which very few had a great deal, while the vast majority had very little.
The advent and strengthening of our public schools had a great effect on improving this disparity. However, we near a new gilded age, and now, in states like Ohio and Wisconsin we are on the verge of dismantling our public schools through unprecedented cuts in funding and the elimination of collective bargaining.
This puts us at a crossroads:
Do we want the dubious distinction of being the first generation to hand off a lesser America than the one we inherited? Do we truly want to leave our kids a world absent many of the opportunities we were afforded through a quality public education?
Have we lost that great compassion that made us an anomaly amongst nations? Have we lost all desire to look after one another, especially those who have such a small voice in this conversation: our kids?
Ever deepening cuts to our public schools send the dual messages to our kids that: One, it is not a priority that they get educated; and two, that we have given up on finding better solutions to our problems. Many of us are not willing to send that message, and I know that we are not alone. Just watch the news and you will see Americans are not ready to give up on our kids.
Undermining collective bargaining does not create jobs or reduce deficits. It hurts our students. The simple fact is that teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions. We need to have a voice at the table so that we can speak up for what we know our students need. We need a voice in decisions about school facilities and class size. We have to be heard about the textbooks, materials, and technology our students are using and whether they are adequate to prepare them for the 21st century. And, we must be in the discussions about how to ensure our students' safety and the safety of everyone in the school environment. If we are not at the table, our first-hand, real-world experience is not at the table, and our students are the ones who will lose.
Amongst the public school educators and policemen and firemen I stand in solidarity with today in my red for ed dress, everyone is scrambling to come up with ways in which we can continue to do more with less. But, not surprisingly, the concerns I hear are not only about salary and benefits:
A bright, recent graduate wonders if she should not become a teacher.
A beloved, veteran guidance counselor wonders if she should just get out now.
A talented student musician wonders if she will be able to make music with her peers during a hectic school day.
A friend of mind, now a professor at The Ohio State University, was fired from a non-union position in education because she was protecting, and advocating for, the rights of her students! Students like Thomas – a man with a developmental disability who dropped out of school in the 5th grade. He came up to me and handed me this card after my speech at the Ohio Statehouse rally last Tuesday and asked for MY help. He wants to get his GED. If not educators, I wonder who will speak up for him.
I teach a ninth grade humanities class – in my class music, art, history, and literature become one. The other day we were studying protest songs in connection with Animal Farm. We listened to John Lennon and Billie Holiday and Bob Marley and Neil Young. When the bell rang at the end of class, one of my students turned around and said, "I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE." Finally, education made sense to her.
So I wonder, if not having a voice at the bargaining table, will usher in an extreme form of teaching to the test—because the mortgage may depend on it! I wonder if we will stop the lesson, and return to "testable outcomes." I guarantee you my students will pass the test every year, but they won't know anything. They won't want to stay even after the bell rings. It's called drill-and-kill for a reason; it kills creative thinking. Our global economy requires creative thinking, our global economy requires citizens of the world.
We are the middle class, the public sector and the private sector together, are the middle class. We cannot allow the governors of Wisconsin and Ohio and Indiana and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Florida to shift the blame to the workers in an effort to put an end to collective bargaining – we have to remain a part of the conversation. The reality is that hard-working employees are not to blame for economic deficiencies of the state.
In the words of Mr. Twain:
"Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
The choice is ours.


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Reaching Out to the World
dLOC is more than a digital library - it is an international initiative dedicated to promoting and supporting Caribbean Studies, providing improved access to Caribbean resources, and fostering a collaborative digital library community in the Caribbean region. As such, dLOC is in the process of implementing outreach programs to integrate our efforts into both the scholarly community which we serve and the local community where our initiative is based.
Outreach initiatives to date include:
- Holding teacher training workshops
- Funding the creation of Educational web modules
- Education modules, lesson plans from the dLOC Lesson Plan Competition, and materials related to the dLOC Teacher Training Series are all available in the dLOC Teaching Guides & Materials Collection
- Hosting an online Caribbean Lectures series, Caribbean Scholarship in the Digital Age, September 2009
- Sponsoring presentations on Caribbean Studies
- "Politics and Resistance in Twentieth Century Haiti" by Dr. Matthew J. Smith, presentation sponsored by the Digital Library of the Caribbean as part of the 12th Annual Haitian Studies Institute of Florida International University.
- Red and Black in Haiti, presented at book launch by Dr. Matthew J. Smith
- Publishing and presenting on Caribbean Studies
- Creating online exhibits
- Conducting onsite trainings
Teacher Trainings
First Annual Caribbean Challenge
On Thursday, November 17, 2011, 20 top students from the Academy for Advanced Academics (at FIU), Felix Varela Senior High School, John A Ferguson Senior High School were chosen by their teachers to participate in the Caribbean Challenge at the Green Library at FIU.
The students learned about the Digital Library of the Caribbean and Analyzing Primary and Secondary Sources from Miami Dade teacher Daniel Vinat and dLOC Coordinator Brooke Wooldridge. They participated in a roundtable discussion with FIU historian Sherry Johnson, Special Collections Librarian Vicki Silvera and African and African Diaspora graduate student Felix Jean Louis. Finally, the student teams worked with the key dLOC resources in the bookshelves below selected by FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center graduate student Pierre Losson. They had one hour to read, interpret and prepare a five minute presentation of their findings. All of the presentations were excellent, but the honorable judges FIU Librarians Gayle Williams and Adis Beesting and FIU Latin American and Caribbean Associate Director Liesl Picard selected the group on Panama as the overall winner for their ability to place Panama in the international context, well-coordinated presentation and clear description of the primary and secondary sources.
The event was co-sponsored by the Digital Library of the Caribbean, FIU Libraries, FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center and Miami Dade County Schools. We owe a special thanks to the County District Supervisor for the Curriculum and Instruction Division of Social Sciences and Life Skills at Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Bob Brazofsky, for his support of this event and the funding to make it possible for the teachers to participate in this important experience. Most of all, we thank Daniel Vinat for the vision to develop this project and John Burkowski, Diana Nadaskay, Carlos Ardaya for being excellent teachers and providing their students with exceptional opportunities both inside the classroom and in the community.
Check out this resource packet if you would like to recreate the Caribbean Challenge in your classroom:
- Full packet for Caribbean Challenge
- dLOC Bookshelves for the Caribbean Challenge
- Panama and the Canal: http://www.dloc.com/folder/925/brief
- Jamaica: http://www.dloc.com/folder/919/brief
- Trinidad and Tobago - Eric Williams: http://www.dloc.com/folder/912/brief
- Hurricanes: http://www.dloc.com/folder/926/brief
Teacher Training Workshop: Caribbean Leaders' Contributions to Black Intellectual Movements
Professional development workshop for primary and secondary teachers positions the Caribbean as a site for the transference, interpretation and promotion of larger movements and provides an overview of various Caribbean leaders and their ties to black intellectual movements, while highlighting motivating factors for engagement and diversity among some of the more influential, and also infamous figures. Led by Matthew J. Smith, Ph.D., Department of History and Archaeology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Center at FIU, in partnership with Miami Dade County Public Schools.
The Role of the Caribbean in Black Intellectual Movements, 1940s-1970s.
From Negritude to Natty Dread: An Introduction
From Garvey to Marley: A Look at Caribbean Leadership
Time: Wednesday, December 8, 2010 @ 08:30 AM
Venue: FIU Biscayne Bay Campus, Wolfe University Center Ballroom, North Miami
Integrating Technology and Area Studies: Discovering Caribbean Diversity (Spring 2010)
Professional Development Workshop for middle and high school foreign language, social studies and language arts teachers
Saturdays: Jan 23 & Feb 6, 8:30am-4:30pm, accompanying online modules (Orange Park High School; 2300 Kingsley Ave; Orange Park, FL)
Saturdays: Apr 24 & May 1, 8-3:30pm, accompanying online modules (Space Coast Credit Union; 20 S. Wickham Rd; Melbourne, FL)
- Learn about a region strategically important to Florida
- Interact with experts on Caribbean issues
- Take home a Caribbean resource manual
- Learn to use interactive technology tools while integrating content
- Create ready-to-use standards-based materials
- Earn up to 20 in-service hours
Lunch fee of $10. Workshop limited to 25 participants. Sponsored by: Florida International University, University of Florida, Digital Library of the Caribbean and the Foreign Language Educators of Northeast Florida
"Developing an Open Access, Multi-Institutional, International Digital Library: the Digital Library of the Caribbean" (in Resource Sharing & Information Networks), by Brooke Wooldrige, Laurie Taylor, and Mark Sullivan, 2009.
"Digital Library of the Caribbean : a User-centric Model for Technology Development in Collaborative Digitization Projects" (Invited paper to a Special issue of OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives), by Marilyn Ochoa and Mark Sullivan, 2009.
Presentations: 2011
Dutch Caribbean Library Conference, Curacao
Willemstad, Curacao, February 23-24, 2011
Participants: Brooke Wooldridge, Laila Miletic-Vejzovic
Florida International University GIS Day
Miami, FL, March 25, 2011
Participant: Brooke Wooldridge
Dartmouth Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies Symposium
New Hanover, NH, April 8, 2011
Participant: Brooke Wooldridge
Florida International University Tuesday Times Roundtable
Miami, FL, April 12, 2011
Participants: Brooke Wooldridge, Liesl B. Picard
The University of Chicago Center for Latin American Studies
Chicago, IL, April 20, 2011
Participant: Brooke Wooldridge
Presentations: 2010
Caribbean Diversity Teacher Training
Jacksonville, Florida
Participants: Mary Risner, Brooke Wooldridge, Chantalle Verna, Andrea Queeley, Heather Russell, Gerry Murray
Endangered Archives Workshop
Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Canada, January 23, 2010
"A Multi-Institutional Approach to Newspaper Preservation in the Caribbean"
Participant: Gayle Williams
Miami Dade Council for Social Studies Conference
March 1, 2010
"Teaching Haiti's History: Past and Present"
Participants: Adam Silvia and Brooke Wooldridge
The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and the Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library
Florida State University, March 26, 2010
Presenters: Matt Loving, Mark Sullivan, and Laurie Taylor
Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, April 20-24, 2010
Participants: Brooke Wooldridge and Vicki Silvera
Haiti's History: Foundations of the Future
Duke University, April 22-23, 2010
Participant: Brooke Wooldridge
Caribbean Diversity Teacher Training
Melbourne, Florida, April 24 and May 1, 2010
Participants: Mary Risner, Brooke Wooldridge, Chantalle Verna, Heather Russell, Nicola Foote, Rosalyn Howard
Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library
University of Virginia, May 6-7, 2010
Participants: Laurie Taylor and Brooke Wooldridge
Latin America & Outreach Conference
Stone Center for Latin American Studies, May 20-21, 2010
Participants: Hannah Covert, Liesl Picard, Brooke Wooldridge
Caribbean Studies Association CSA
Georgetown, Barbados, May 24-28, 2010
Participant: Brooke Wooldridge
Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries ACURIL
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, June 6-12, 2010
Participants: Laila Miletic-Vejzovic, Mark Sullivan, Laurie Taylor, Judith Rogers, Brooke Wooldridge
Global Resources Network Forum (Fair Dealing and Sustainable Management of Archives and Cultural Evidence)
Center for Research Libraries, Washington DC, June 25, 2010
Participant: Gayle Williams
Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials SALALM
Providence, Rhode Island, July 23-27, 2010
Brooke Wooldridge
Florida Council for Social Studies
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, September 24-27, 2010
"Take Latin America and the Caribbean into Your Classroom"
Participants: Mary Risner and Brooke Wooldridge
Latin American Studies Association
Toronto, Canada, October 10-15, 2010
Participants: Brooke Wooldridge, Liesl B. Picard
Haitian Studies Association Conference
Providence, Rhode Island, November 10-13, 2010
Participant: Brooke Wooldridge
Haitian Studies Association
University of Indiana, Bloomington, November 15, 2010
"The Digital Library of the Caribbean – Collaboration for Improved Preservation and Access for Research Materials"
Participants: Brooke Wooldridge and Adam Silvia
Jamaica Journal Launch
Florida International University, November 16, 2010
Participants: Barry Chevannes, Clover Johnston
Digital Library of the Caribbean Summit
Florida International University, November 16 -17, 2010
Participants: dLOC Partners
The Role of the Caribbean in Black Intellectual Movements, 1940s-1970s.
From Negritude to Natty Dread: An Introduction
From Garvey to Marley: A Look at Caribbean Leadership
Miami Dade County Schools Teacher Training
Florida International University, December 8, 2010
Participant: Matthew J. Smith


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The question below might be well known, and using different words (I made these up, I'm not a number theorist or specialist in combinatorics)
For all integers $n\geq 2$ denote by $\mathcal{P}(n)$ the set of partitions of $n$, see here for a definition
We say that a postive integer $k$ is $\mathbf{n}$-squarable if there exist $(p_1,\ldots,p_t) \in \mathcal{P}(n)$ such that $k=\sum_{i=1}^t{p_i}^2$.
Let $\alpha(n)=\lfloor (n^2-3n)/4\rfloor$.
I would like to show that the integers $n, n+2, n+4,\ldots ,n+2\alpha(n)$ are $n$-squarable.
If we need to reduce a bit the size of $\alpha(n)$ to make it easier to prove this, I'd happily do that.
Also, given $n$ and $k$ as above, could we find a "constructive" algorithm that would find a partition of $n$ verifying $k=\sum_{i=1}^t{p_i}^2$ (without calculating all elements of $\mathcal{P}(n)$ and then doing a search, obviously).
Thank you.


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Console width gotcha
Just when I thought it was safe for me to be let out to program in public, I go and embarrass myself yet again; it's not like the last time doesn't still zing! It's the usual story: write library function that's not readily amenable to automated testing; perform scratch tests; get inappropriate level of confidence; program confidently; build application many levels of abstraction higher; observe weird behaviour; spend whole day tracking it down; slap self on head for stupidity.
As always, when the solution reveals itself, it's blindingly obvious. Let's work backwards, since that's how I had to approach the problem.
At the moment I'm developing/enhancing a bunch of software analysis tools, to assist me in my work as an expert witness in an IT fraud case. Most of these command-line (CLI) programs. What they actually do is not germane to this post, but suffice to say they perform detailed comparative analyses on a grand scale. I've been (righteously, albeit immodestly) slapping myself on the back for being able to cross-product compare thousands of files from one codebase with thousands of files from another - millions of exhaustive file comparisons in minutes, rather than days, which is what they were taking when I started the optimisation exercise.
So, hubris-mode enabled, a couple of days ago I set about addressing one of the minor defects I was encountering in all the tools. They all make use of an as-yet-unreleased software library - CLASP (Command-Line Argument Sorting and Parsing) - for processing command-line arguments, and emitting usage information. All tools respond to the Linux-standard '
--help' option, and duly output their usage information.
The problem was that sometimes I wanted to capture the usage output, either by redirecting to a file, or piping to
more or another such tool, and in either case no output was evident. (You might, gentle readers, suggest that this need reveals a deeper problem: that I can't remember the usage of my own tools means either (i) that they're too complicated, and/or (ii) that I've a head like a sieve. We'll have to leave that for now, and focus on the practical problem.)
I tried numerous quick, haphazard things, without much illumination. At no time could I get the program to fail in the debugger, which is usually a portent of a difficult diagnosis ahead. In and amongst my random scribblings I did manage to elicit a diagnostic log statement with the emergency severity level, which was obviously of interest. I did this by enabling a feature that, for good reason, is disabled by default in the tools, namely using C++'s catch-all clause.
catch(...) { pantheios::logputs(pantheios::emergency, "unexpected unknown error"); }
The ability to catch operating system exceptions such as access violations, divide by zero, invalid handle and so on via C++'s catch-all clause is compiler-dependent. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler can do so, but others cannot. (IIRC, Metrowerks CodeWarrior for Windows is one such.) So, for reasons of portability it's not a good idea. More importantly, since (good) C++ software does/should not throw things not derived from
std::exception, it's best to assume that any such condition is a fault, resulting from a programming error. Given the fact that one cannot assume anything once a fault is encountered, it's six of one and half a dozen of the other as to whether it's useful to catch and log, or simply to allow the process to crash. Either way, you will, hopefully, receive notification of the fault.
Reproducing the problem
Notwithstanding, with this hint of some problem at a more fundamental level, I realised I had to get all biblical on this defect. The first thing to do was create a program, help_test, that reproduced the behaviour:
static clasp::alias_t const aliases[] = { { CLASP_ARGTYPE_FLAG, "-h", "--help", "displays help information and then quits" }, { CLASP_ARGTYPE_FLAG, "-v", "--version", "displays the program version and then quits" }, CLASP_ALIAS_ARRAY_TERMINATOR }; void show_usage_header(FILE* stm); void show_usage_body(FILE* stm); void show_usage(FILE* stm) { show_usage_header(stm); show_usage_body(stm); } int tool_main(clasp::arguments_t const* args) { if(clasp::flag_specified(args, "--help")) { show_usage(stdout); } return EXIT_SUCCESS; }
tool_main() is the entry point, called with the CLASP-parsed command-line representation. The details are irrelevant here.]
Remember, the problem was it worked fine when used normally, as in:
> help_test.exe --help
Produces output including:
. . . Options: -h --help displays help information and then quits -v --version displays the program version and then quits
But when redirected or piped ...
> help_test.exe --help | tee help-output.txt
... it failed to produce any output at all!
The first thing to do was to insert some more diagnostic logging statements:
#include <pantheios/pan.hpp> void show_usage_header(FILE* stm) { pan::log_DEBUG("show_usage_header()"); . . . pan::log_DEBUG("~show_usage_header()"); } void show_usage_body(FILE* stm) { pan::log_DEBUG("show_usage_body()"); . . . pan::log_DEBUG("~show_usage_body()"); } void show_usage(FILE* stm) { pan::log_DEBUG("show_usage()"); show_usage_header(stm); show_usage_body(stm); pan::log_DEBUG("~show_usage()"); } int tool_main(clasp::arguments_t const* args) { if(clasp::flag_specified(args, "--help")) { show_usage(stdout); } return EXIT_SUCCESS; }
This quickly showed that the problem was within
show_usage_body(), which never returned when the program was piped/redirected:
void show_usage_body(FILE* stm) { pan::log_DEBUG("show_usage_body()"); clasp_show_body( NULL , aliases , clasp_show_body_by_FILE , stm , 0 #ifdef WIN32 , winstl::get_console_width() #else , 76 #endif , -4 , 1 ); pan::log_DEBUG("~show_usage_body()"); }
(If you have already spotted the defect, well done. To me now it's painfully obvious, but at the time ...)
Debugging a redirected program
At this point, I figured I was definitely dealing with a defect, and that the quickest way to find it would be to debug. But how to debug a process whose output is being redirected? It's not like you can put "
--help | more" into your IDE command-line; it'll just pass all three tokens along as arguments. It's not a shell now, is it?
In cases such as this, what's needed is to attach the debugger to the process after the shell's done it's redirection magic, but before the offending function is called. The way to do this is not difficult, though it is somewhat tedious.
First, we need to get the process to pause. You could insert a
Sleep(10000);, but that's kind of a drag because while you're familiarising yourself to moving between the various windows you're likely to take longer than 10s, and miss it, and once you are familiar you'll find waiting nearly 8-9s for the process to continue a real drag. (Well you will if you're as impatient as me, anyway.) A better approach is to cause the program to stop as it would (in debug mode, anyway) when it hits an assertion, since this puts up a modal dialog, thereby providing a user-controlled wait.
int tool_main(clasp::arguments_t const* args) { _ASSERTE(false); if(clasp::flag_specified(args, "--help")) { show_usage(stdout); } return EXIT_SUCCESS; }
(This uses Microsoft's C-Runtime Library's
_ASSERTE() macro. Substitute as necessary for your preferred compiler/RTL.)
Next step is to attach to the debugger. This is pretty simple as well. Open Task Manager (Ctrl-Shift-Esc for fellow non-mouse-ditherers) and, from the Processes tab, select help_test.exe. Right-click, and select Debug. When it warns you and requests confirmation, click Yes.
The final step is to select the debugger. Unless you like inconvenience, carry out the first two steps with the IDE you used to create the program, with the program's project open. Then, from the list of possible debuggers, select the desired IDE instance, and bang!, you're in. All that's left is to set a breakpoint on the line after the faux assertion, and click the ignore option from the assertion dialog (which your debugged program is still showing), and Bob's your uncle.
Ok, so that's how to debug a running process in three easy steps. Let's get back to the specifics of my problem, and find the source of my shame.
Each time I stepped over
show_usage_body(), and the CLASP functions it calls,
clasp_show_body() and
clasp_show_body_by_FILE(), the program ended silently. Although CLASP already has the ability to work with an external diagnostic logging library for the command-line parsing aspects, unfortunately that's not yet in the usage output part. Doh! Rather than go an insert stuff into the library diagnostic logging statements into the CLASP internals, I stepped deeper into the bowels of CLASP's usage, and started commenting out code. Pretty soon I found the location of the problem, if not the cause.
The problem was somewhere inside the worker function
clasp_show_split_option_help_limit_width_by_FILE_() (shown with comments and chunks of code removed to try and achieve some brevity):
static void clasp_show_split_option_help_limit_width_by_FILE_( clasp_diagnostic_context_t const* ctxt , clasp_char_t const* help , FILE* stm , int width , int TabSize ) { const size_t len = clasp_strlen_(help); if( 0 == width || (int)len <= width - abs(TabSize)) { . . . /* assume infinite width, and print in a single line */ } else { clasp_char_t* buffer = clasp_strdup_(ctxt, help); if(NULL == buffer) { clasp_show_split_option_help_limit_width_by_FILE_(ctxt, help, stm, 0, TabSize); } else { const size_t remainingWidth = (width - abs(TabSize)) - 1; clasp_char_t* p0; clasp_char_t* p1; p0 = p1 = buffer; for(; (int)len != p1 - buffer;) { if((p1 - buffer) + remainingWidth > len) { clasp_show_split_option_help_limit_width_by_FILE_(ctxt, p0, stm, width, TabSize); break; } else { . . . /* split line to fit width, calling self recursively */ } } free(buffer); } } }
Commenting out the emboldened line made the process end normally, albeit some parts of the usage information were not output.
Eureka! moment
But I still couldn't reliably catch the issue in the debugger. So I decided to adopt a 20th-century diagnostic tool, and inserted an
fprintf(stderr, ...) statement to record the parameters of
clasp_show_split_option_help_limit_width_by_FILE_(). When run normally, the width was indicated as 120, the width of my shell window, in the first call (and smaller values in the limited subsequent recursive calls). When run with redirection/piping, however, the width is -1, on the first call, and the next recursion, and the next recursion, and the ... you get the point: the function can't handle negative widths, and recurses forever. Ergo, the program exit is as a result of stack exhaustion.
The cause of this is can be traced back to the use of
winstl::get_console_width(), whose implementation returns
~size_t(0) if the width cannot be elicited. Almost too obvious now, isn't it?
Let's list the mistakes here:
- Using a function,
winstl::get_console_width(), that conflates a value return with a sentinel failure code, and then not checking it!
- Passing the unsigned result to a function expecting a signed value. The result reinterpretation of the bit pattern causes
~size_t(0)to be interpreted as
int(-1)! Had both been unsigned, the width would have been effectively infinite, which is what it really is in a redirected stream, and it would have worked as desired.
- Not incorporating redirection into the automated tests. Although difficult, this is not impossible: get the test program to relaunch itself with redirected standard output stream, capturing the output of the child, and verifying its content and form.
- Not having subjected the work to peer review.
Given the confidentiality restrictions of the work I'm doing, the last one is excusable since I'm not permitted to do otherwise. But there's no excuse for the first three.
As is often the case, it's the confluence of several mistakes and unusual conditions. I guess the lesson is, no matter how diligent one's general practice, or extensive one's experience, mistakes can still be made, and will make their presence felt in subtle ways that are difficult to reproduce and to diagnose. It would be churlish (and cowardly) of me to suggest that this instance counts as evidence of the broader challenge of dealing with complex software systems - in this case it feels more like slack practice on my part - but it certainly illustrates that there be dragons, no matter what the intentions.Just when I thought it was safe for me to be let out to program in public, I go and embarrass myself yet again. It's the usual story: write library function that's not readily amenable to automated testing; perform scratch tests; get inappropriate level of confidence; program confidently; build application; observe weird behaviour; spend day tracking it down; slap self on head for stupidity ...


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Hated Julia Roberts's SAG pink pantsuit. Hated the side ruching, hated the colour, hate the fact that it belongs on a reality show second wife and not a Movie Star.
Not crazy about Sandra Bullock's Lanvin either. (And can Giuliana Rancic please learn how to pronounce is properly? It's not LON-VONN.) Something about the texture of the green. Something about the bow on the hip. Something about those tacky shoes. Nothing about it worked.
And, most disappointingly, our Cate Blanchett. Pink, sequins, Givenchy…napkin? I'd be more inclined if it were green or black or anything BUT the colour of a newborn onesie or the wedding colour of a ringlet-haired bride. This is not good enough for her.
So thanks God for her attitude. She practically scolded the E! camera during her interview with Rancic, and then she scolded the SAGs for tolerating Matthew McConaughey's spacey, indulgent acceptance but rushing hers. This is not a warm one either. And she never, ever tries to be.


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Kim Kardashianis engaged toKanye Westafter the rapper popped the question on her 33rd birthday,E! Newsreports.
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Third time's the charm, right?
Kim Kardashian is engaged to Kanye West after the rapper popped the question on her 33rd birthday, E! News reports.
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The Supreme Court will decide whether or not to scale back the landmark Voting Rights Act, which requires states with a history of discrimination at the polls to get federal permission before making any changes in how they conduct elections. NBC's Pete Williams reports.
Agreeing to hear another important case on race in America, the Supreme Court said Friday it will take up a battle over a key part of the landmark Voting Rights Act. Civil rights groups fear the court will use this case to gut the law.
Passed by Congress in 1965 and renewed four times since then, most recently in 2006, a key provision requires states with a history of discrimination at the polls to get federal permission before making any changes to election procedures -- from redrawing congressional district boundaries to changing the locations of polling places.
The law was at the core of the legal cases this year blocking strict new voter ID laws in Texas and South Carolina.
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The areas covered by the law, Shelby County says, include some localities that have made substantial reforms while missing other parts of the country that have failed to root out discrimination at the polls. "Florida has been forced into pre-clearance litigation to prove that reducing early voting from 14 days to 8 is not discriminatory, when states such as Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania have no early voting at all," the county says.
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Three years ago, the Supreme Court narrowly rejected a challenge to the pre-clearance requirement but strongly suggested that several justices had doubts about its constitutionality, given recent electoral reforms. "Things have changed in the South," the court said in 2009. "Blatantly discriminatory evasions of federal decrees are rare."
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Oh Snap! New Line Cinema has announced that it's releasing "Final Destination: Death Trip 3D" against Rob Zombie's "H2". That date would be August 28th, 2009. For those unfamiliar with this, "H2" has been "served", it is now their opportunity to "serve back". If they do, then it's officially "on". In which case we settle all of this with a dance-off. Oooohhh, how exciting!
Valerie Cruz (Dexter), has been cast on the next season of HBO's "True Blood". We used to cover it when the site, but stopped when fan interest seemed to wain. What do you guys think, is anyone out there interested in having us pick up coverage again? Informal poll in the comments!
Trailer for "Orphan", starring Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga, about "a husband and wife who recently lost their baby [who] adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she claims to be". Seems to be lots of evil kid movies lately. Wonder if there's something to that.
The "Night of the Demons" remake has a release date, October 9th 2009. Suspiciously absent from this announcement, whether or not it's going wide theatrically. I refuse to believe a film starring Edward Furlong, Tiffany Shepis and Linnea Quigley is playing across the country in 2009. Not that I wouldn't love to see it happen, but let's be realistic here people.
Speaking of wide releases, the remake of Stephen King's "IT" is going to be an "all out theatrical" adaptation set "in present day". I do enjoy the original miniseries, although I think we can all agree that the finale needs a much needed special FX upgrade, so I'm interested to see how this reboot turns out.
Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo will be directing a remake of the 1963 Roger Corman flick "X: The Man with the X Ray Eyes". Never seen it myself, but as long as it doesn't turn out like "Hollowman" I'll be happy. Fresnadillo, for his part, directed the recent "28 Weeks Later".
Alex Proyas, director of "I, Robot", really hates FOX. He's so bitter over their tinkering and ridiculous orders (jokes! jokes! jokes!) that he's actually warning filmmakers off of working with them, and apparently, telling CHUD all about it. It's good to at least have a director speaking out about this. How is it that the studio that released "Meet Dave", "Space Chimps", "What Happens in Vegas", "27 Dresses" and "Jumper" ALL IN THE SAME YEAR is still allowed to make movies? I think it's time for someone to break out the "bad monkey stick".
Here's a look at some hi-res stills for "Lesbian Vampire Killers". And yes, all the red blooded males are probably going to want to click on that.
Planning on attending this year's Tribeca Film Festival in New York? Here's the midnight screening schedule, where they put all the genre films airing at the fest.